Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57960 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-09-22
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Colour, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, PAL
• Original language: English, Japanese
• Subtitled in: English
• Dubbed in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 75 minutes

Special Features
English
Japanese
Region 2

Synopsis
Fifth in the series of this ground breaking anime that focuses on an Earth that has been changed beyond all measure after being struck by a meteorite. As the survivors search for answers, tensions rise amongst them after a series of betrayals and revelations.

Customer Reviews

"Tear open the door to your heart."
If the previous DVD's story was a hint that nothing is quite what it seems, in the three episodes here, the scales begin to fall away, almost without warning. We will only encounter one Angel, but the interplay of the characters is so intense that one hardly notices. In addition, the steady pace of revelations about, NERV, SEELE, and the Human Instrumentality Project leave the viewer as unnerved as the characters.

The first episode, "Lie and Silence," has Misato trying to deal with her own interior loneliness and her ambivalent feelings about Ryoji Kaji, would be lothario and suspicious character. Confronted by a series of unnerving discoveries that includes the remains of the first Angel secreted in the chambers below NERV headquarters, Misato finds herself questioning NERV's true agenda.

In the next episode, "Sickness unto Death, and...," is one of the most terrifying episodes thus far. Shinji and Unit 01 are trapped in the interior field of an Angel that does not seem to exist and the boy's hallucinations strip him down to a fragile core. When this triggers impulsive action on the part of the EVA, everyone, pilots and staff, suddenly realizes that the EVA's are much more than robot slaves. And that their true nature may be just as dangerous to man as the angels.

This episode lays the groundwork for the tragedies to come. In an inexplicable event EVA 04 and the entire secondary NERV site vanish without a trace. Gendo Ikari's bleak ruminations leave us with little doubt that he has his own priorities, and even Misato becomes suspicious of the speed at which the fourth child, Toji Suzuhara, is identified.

In a stream of small betrayals, the tension between the characters mounts. It becomes clear that the destruction of the angels has a timetable of its own, and is being used to mask both SEELE's expectations and Gendo Ikari's own intentions. In the middle are the pilots, victims of the ambitions of others. The more human they become, the stronger grows the sense of some impending inexorable fate.

Neon Genesis
This the best Neon Genesis Evangelion - dvd its has things that could make you feel differently about anime. Personal experience one of the best dvd in the series. Check out The End of Neon Genesis Evangelion, an alternative ending to the Neon Genesis Series. Better then the one shown on T.V. also death and rebirth, the first part of the end of Neon Genesis. The menu in both these are very good and the special features are to die for.

Yay!
After giving up the free subscription of sky tv (Sob Sob) I was more than pleased to find this on DVD!!! Now I can add this truly brill classic to my already overwhelming anime dvds!

Another Triumph!